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1. Real Madrid channel their manager’s champion ‘Will to Win’
Forget about lucky, what Zidane’s Madrid really are are winners. The great Frenchman was a player of ethereal beauty, but what is often forgotten in the haze of aesthetic nostalgia is the fact that he had that rare quality that marks the Champions apart from the others; an un-bendable ‘Will to Win’.
Without really playing all that well at any stage of the tourrnament, Madrid have now eased their way into the quarterfinals of the competition they covet above all, and are still in the pole position in La Liga (they may be a point behind Barca, but they have a game in hand). They have now scored in their 47th game running, in all competitions, and they’ve never really looked like losing any game they’ve played in over the full ninety minutes.
His team may not have the supernatural brilliance of his playing heyday, but Zinedine Zidane’s men sure do know how to win a football game.
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